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"When even the federal government can't make up its mind on the plain meaning of the statute, it shows the need for an authoritative voice"

The Supreme Court on Monday accepted a case that could hurt medical device manufacturers, turned down another that could have harmed pharmaceutical companies and put off deciding on the Enron scandal. via The Tennessean

"The moment they entered the school system, you have no control"

The American Medical Association voted Monday to lobby for laws allowing severely allergic children to bring lifesaving medicine to school.

Many school districts have policies prohibiting children from bringing medicine to school and 18 states have similar bans, said Dr. Duane Cady, a member of the AMA's Board of Trustees.

When it comes to serious food allergies, denial of medicine at school can be a matter of life and death, according to a measure AMA delegates adopted at their annual policy meeting. Read more

A plate and cereal bowl with markers for proper portion sizes appear to help obese patients with diabetes lose weight and decrease their use of glucose-controlling medications, as per a report in the June 25 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Between 1960 and 2000, the proportion of U.S. adults who were obese increased from 13.4 percent to 30.9 percent, as per background information in the article. Most cases of type 2 diabetes can be attributed directly to obesity. Restricting calories has been shown to improve blood sugar control in diabetics, partially by contributing to weight loss. The increasing prevalence of obesity is paralleled by increasing portion sizes in the marketplace, the authors write. Portion sizes are an important determinant of energy intake; the number of calories ingested by subjects at a meal has been directly correlated with the serving size offered........

Obese or overweight Chinese individuals age 65 and older have a lower risk of developing tuberculosis than those at a normal weight, as per a research studyin the June 25 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Tuberculosis is usually linked to poverty and undernutrition in both developed and developing countries. In addition, obesity is an increasing problem that is linked to a wide range of chronic degenerative conditions, notably, diabetes mellitus, a well-reported predisposing factor for active tuberculosis, as per background information in the article. Few studies have systematically examined the effect of obesity and overweight on tuberculosis, particularly in Asian populations........

"We think that cord blood is a very rich source of these regulatory T cells, and there was a measurable increase in these cells in patient's blood through six months after the infusion"

In a small pilot study, transfusion of stored, autologous , umbilical cord blood into a group of children newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes appears to have reduced their disease severity, possibly re-setting ... via In Diabetes Today